| Description | Track 1: silence 0.14 mins
Interview with unidentified student at Harborne. He talks about using a white stick to help him get around and not feeling embarrassed by it, but finding it difficult to move around through crowds of people, and discusses problems associated with getting the shape of things through touch and having objects described by sighted people. He talks about how easy he finds it to learn new things and concentrate, and mentions his dislike of basketwork (tracks 2-3).
Interview with Theresa Edwards from Manchester and Melanie Pickup from Northfield, students at Harborne. They talk about some of the workshops at and classrooms at schools and colleges they have attended and Melanie talks about her vision and using a white stick. Theresa thinks it's better to use a white stick to let traffic know and make it easier for her to get across the road. She discusses the immaturity of some of the other students and thinks that they need the chance to become more independent. She talks about working in a shop and a hospital and mixing with different people, going out to a club in Harborne and the strangeness of meeting new people. Theresa talks about working on the switchboard and her difficulties working alongside sighted people. She feels that the college at Harborne has not taught the students very much about being independent and that the girls especially do not have enough autonomy (tracks 4-7).
Total: 17.06 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0394280 |